Leslie Lever, Baron Lever
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Leslie Maurice Lever, Baron Lever,
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and read Law at Leeds University. He was a solicitor and poor man's lawyer between 1928 and the advent of Legal Aid in 1948, funding his impecunious clients' cases out of his own pocket if they lost. His younger sister and three younger brothers were all lawyers. His brother Harold was also a Member of Parliament.
He served as
Lord Mayor of Manchester
(1957–58), attending 2,700 official engagements. In his political career he represented inner-city slum areas, both as a councillor and an MP.
He was knighted by
the Queen in 1970[2] for his philanthropic work. He died in Manchester in 1977, aged 72.[citation needed
]
Arms
Sinister: a Bear sejant proper, gorged with a Collar Gules, charged with Pine Cones proper. |
References
- ^ "No. 46633". The London Gazette. 15 July 1975. p. 9003.
- ^ "No. 45239". The London Gazette. 27 November 1970. p. 13037.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles & Hilary L. Rubinstein, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (2011), p. 638